Graciliano Coviello

Graciliano Coviello (1960-2008) was a Gambetti crime family associate and drug trafficker. In 2008, he was killed in a shootout at the Van Cortlandt Park in The Bronx, New York City.

Biography
Graciliano Coviello was born in East New York, Brooklyn, New York City in 1960 to a family of Italian immigrants. Coviello became an associate of the Gambetti crime family, and he began trafficking drugs during the 1980s. After becoming a made man, he was assigned to move drugs throughout the city. He used Van Cortlandt Park in The Bronx as his base, moving drugs via helicopter. In 2008, he was killed when Luis Fernando Lopez ambushed him and his guards at the stash location, and Lopez stole the drugs and his helicopter.